""" Just the main ideas from word_count.py """

# find a way to get a list of the words from
# file, let's say they're in a really big list
# called words = ['moby', 'dick', 'by, 'herman', ...]

# count for each word of how many times it show up
count = {}
for word in words:
    count[word] = 1 + count.get(word, 0)

# Now count is e.g. {'moby':5234, 'the':122234, 'lorax':1, ...}
# To sort by count, I want to create list of pairs:
# [ [5234,'moby'], [122234,'the'], [1,'lorax':1], ... ]

pairs = []
for key in count.keys():  # key='moby', 'the', ...
    pairs.append( [ count[key] , key ]  )